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They won. Peru repealed the laws that allowed oil drilling. Garcia was forced to apologise. The people returned to their homes in the Amazon

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The local people acted in their own self-defence and ours. Using their own bodies and wooden weapons they blockaded the rivers and roads

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Peru's right-wing President Alan Garcia sold the rights to log and drill 70% of his country's bit of the Amazon to international oil co's

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In the Amazon rainforest, the poorest people in the world are defending an ecosystem none of you can live without.

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daylight is just breaking on the Amazon rainforest

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Good morning UK. My friend the sun is shining on you.

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Everyone should go and watch the movie The End Of The Line

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it used to have a lot more fish

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the sun is shining brightest over my largest ocean

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Its night time in Europe and Africa and across to India

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Its dark all the time now in Antartica. Those poor cold penguins.

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Alaska is one of my favourite bits of me. I hope you guys aren't going to spoil it

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Good morning Anchorage. Talking of NOT Friends of Me. How are you Sarah Palin

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Who I like. Thom Yorke for his climate change campaigning. Who I don't. David Bellamy - he used to be my friend and now is a denier

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I've just become a follower of Friends of Me

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never really know when its coming

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Good morning LA & San Francisco. sorry about the whole San Andreas fault thing. To be honest I can't really control it. Its like a hicough

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! am 4.5 billion years old you know. I'm planning a party on my 5 billiuonth birthday. Will you guys be around for that?

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Not a bad idea, as long as the people of Chad and mali get something out of it and its not just powering big German TVs

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A bunch of German companies want to put solar panels in the sahara to get power from my friend the sun